by Heaton Acupuncture | Jan 19, 2021 | Bell's Palsy, Electro-Acupuncture
Adding electro-acupuncture (EA) to usual care results in better clinical outcomes in the management of Bell’s palsy, Turkish clinicians report. A total of 88 patients with Bell’s palsy received standard treatments (ST) or standard treatment plus EA...
by Heaton Acupuncture | Jan 5, 2021 | Acupuncture, Bell's Palsy, Electro-Acupuncture
Adding electro-acupuncture (EA) to usual care results in better clinical outcomes in the management of Bell’s palsy, Turkish clinicians report. A total of 88 patients with Bell’s palsy received standard treatment (ST), or standard treatment plus EA...
by Heaton Acupuncture | Dec 30, 2020 | Electro-Acupuncture, IVF
Electro-acupuncture (EA) can enhance oocyte maturation and fertilisation rates in women undergoing IVF, Indonesian researchers have found. A randomised trial was conducted with 24 subjects in an IVF programme who were randomly allocated into verum-EA and sham-EA...
by Heaton Acupuncture | Dec 12, 2019 | Electro-Acupuncture, Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Electro-acupuncture (EA) may be helpful in treating fatigue in patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), according to a pilot study carried out in Spain. Fifty-two patients with IBD in clinical remission who were experiencing fatigue were randomly assigned to...
by Heaton Acupuncture | Oct 24, 2019 | Electro-Acupuncture, Incontinence
A large randomised trial carried out in China has shown that electro-acupuncture (EA) is as effective as usual medical care for the treatment of women with urinary incontinence. Five hundred women with moderate to severe mixed urinary incontinence were randomised to...
by Heaton Acupuncture | Nov 7, 2018 | Electro-Acupuncture, Headache
Scalp electro-acupuncture (EA) can be successfully used to reduce pain severity and disability in headache patients. Japanese investigators treated 54 primary headache patients at two bilateral points located on the occipital scalp with 50 Hz EA for 15 minutes, once a...
